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Recent Examples of tween
Okay, so the former was a joke, the latter less so, as the display was wallpapered with actual print-outs from the tween and teen catalog as well as magazine spreads showing you how to dress like Buffy Summers for under $20.
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Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
Coco is active like many tween and teen young ladies.
—Elizabeth Denton, StyleCaster, 19 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, as Hjalmar’s 14-year-old daughter, Hedvig, the elfin Maaike Laanstra-Corn is delivering yet another wonderfully eccentric embodiment of a high-strung tween with a potentially perilous excess of imagination.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2025
Gomez said her tween sister cried while watching Inside Out 2.
—Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
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Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
Coco is active like many tween and teen young ladies.
—Elizabeth Denton, StyleCaster, 19 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, as Hjalmar’s 14-year-old daughter, Hedvig, the elfin Maaike Laanstra-Corn is delivering yet another wonderfully eccentric embodiment of a high-strung tween with a potentially perilous excess of imagination.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2025
Gomez said her tween sister cried while watching Inside Out 2.
—Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tween
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OpenAI and Meta last month announced changes to how their chatbots respond to teenagers asking questions about suicide or showing signs of mental and emotional distress.—
Trân Nguyễn,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
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In September, the Federal Trade Commission ordered seven companies, including OpenAI, Alphabet and Meta, to explain how their AI chatbots may affect children and teenagers.—
Ernestine Siu,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2025
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But man, our kids went toe to toe with them.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Oct. 2025
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The event includes pumpkin decorating and other activities for kids, music, a plant sale and garden shop along with barbecue lunch sold by Amigos de Vista Lions.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Use of complementary and alternative medicine in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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Children and adolescents ages 2 to 18, without other high-risk factors like immunosuppression, can receive and should be offered the vaccine if they were not immunized before, according to the guidance.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
27 Aug. 2025
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With Brodin back, youngster David Jiricek came out of the lineup against his former team, Columbus.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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In a new layer, the storyline taps into the fresh embrace of Islam by some youngsters in France with second and third generation migrant roots.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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Santos has also been charged with allowing a juvenile to have possession of a firearm.—
KC Baker,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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This is the third time in less than a week that a juvenile has been hit and seriously hurt or killed by a vehicle.—
Jennifer Edwards Baker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
9 Oct. 2025
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Ben Lewis Doherty, playing a boy named Sam whose life is upended by Robbie, is the show’s greatest innocent, a softhearted moppet who warns deer to be careful when crossing the street.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Gabriel Byrne shows up as a nasty villain known as the Chancellor, who has kidnaped the adorable moppet Ella (Ava Joyce McCarthy) and whisked her off to a bucolic Alpine village where a society of ruthless killers are able to raise, and train, their children in peace.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
6 June 2025
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Fun for kiddos and reassuring for parents, the Fitbit Ace earned our Editors' Choice award for kid-friendly smartwatch.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 Oct. 2025
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Cut the top off a paper plate to make the flat head and provide your kiddo with the paper hair, eyes, noses, and bolts to glue on.—
Ellen Sturm Niz,
Parents,
6 Oct. 2025
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There were kiddie pools in the yard and vintage VW buses in the driveway.—
Clare Malone,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Parks and recreation: Neff Park, a 5.6-acre lakefront park on Lake St. Clair, offers residents a 160-slip marina, kayak rentals, swimming, a kiddie pool, boardwalk along the marina, volleyball and gathering spaces.—
Brendel Clark,
Freep.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Tween.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tween. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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